MEXICO CITY/CIUDAD JUAREZ, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Mexico’s defense ministry said on Tuesday it had flown 200 military personnel to the northern border city of Juarez to fight organized crime there, days after a deadly prison riot led to a manhunt for escaped convicts. Authorities also sacked the director of the prison, from which at […]

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Image source, Getty Images Huge crowds turned up to say goodbye to Pele as his coffin made its way through the streets of Santos By Katy Watson BBC South America correspondent, Santos If Monday’s wake for Brazilian football legend Pele was a day of reflection, Tuesday’s funeral cortege was one of carnivalesque proportions. The 82-year-old, […]

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COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC by Joseph Choi The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has rapidly spread to become the dominant COVID-19 mutation in the U.S., now accounting for 40.5 percent of all cases. The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant as of this week has pushed out the BQ.1 and […]

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By FRANK BAJAK and HANNA ARHIROVA46 minutes ago A Switchblade 600 loitering missile drone manufactured by AeroVironment is displayed at the Eurosatory arms show in Villepinte, north of Paris, on June 14, 2022. Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to […]

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BONI to facilitate transactions St. Kitts and Nevis could soon have access to hundreds of millions of dollars in project financing, following the December 26th board meeting of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).   The Board of Directors of Afreximbank has approved US$1.5 billion in funding to enable member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that have ratified the Partnership […]

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Hello! The Republican U.S. House is set to open in turmoil, Tesla makes its China boss the highest-profile executive after Musk, and driver and YouTube star Ken Block dies in a snowmobile accident by Linda Noakes   World News   People lay flowers near the Eternal Flame memorial at a ceremony in memory of Russian […]

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By Will Richards NME The country of Barbados may seek slavery reparations from the family of Benedict Cumberbatch, it has been revealed. The actor has long discussed his family’s links to the slave trade, previously discussing how his ancestral story led him to take roles in the films Amazing Grace and 12 Years A Slave, […]

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BRASILIA, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Brazilian markets delivered a withering verdict on leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s first full day in office on Monday, after he pledged to prioritize social issues and ordered a budget-busting extension to a fuel tax exemption. Lula’s decision to extend the fuel tax exemption, which will deprive the […]

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MEXICO CITY, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court on Monday elected its first female president, who has pushed back against the government’s nationalist energy agenda, amid a succession process clouded by allegations of plagiarism against another justice competing for the job. By a 6-5 majority vote, the justices chose Norma Pina to head Mexico’s […]

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Jan 2 (Reuters) – The Securities Commission of the Bahamas (SCB) rebuffed on Monday FTX’s claims about the digital assets of its Bahamas unit held by the regulator, saying the debtors of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange had “incomplete information”. Last month, the SCB said it had seized more than $3.5 billion in cryptocurrency from the […]

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